Second Polish Republic

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The Second Polish Republic was the independent Polish state that existed between World War I and World War II, ultimately destroyed by the joint German and Soviet invasion in 1939.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical country
sovereign state
alliance Franco-Polish alliance
Polish–Romanian alliance
alsoKnownAs Second Polish Republic
surface form: Interwar Poland

Second Polish Republic
surface form: Second Republic of Poland
area approximately 388,000 square kilometres
borderedBy Czechoslovakia
Free City of Danzig
Germany
Latvia
Lithuania
Romania
Soviet Union
capital Warsaw
constitution April Constitution of 1935
March Constitution of 1921
continent Europe
conventionalLongName Poland
surface form: Republic of Poland
country Poland
currency Polish złoty
dissolutionCause Invasion of Poland
surface form: German invasion of Poland

Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
surface form: Soviet invasion of Poland
endTime 1939-09-28
ethnicGroup Belarusians
Germans
Jews
Poles
Ukrainians
event May Coup of 1926
Polish–Soviet War
firstPresident Gabriel Narutowicz
firstPrimeMinister Jędrzej Moraczewski
followedBy German occupation of Poland
Polish government-in-exile
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
governmentType parliamentary republic
hadPort Gdynia
hadPortAccess Baltic Sea
headOfGovernmentTitle Prime Minister of Poland
headOfStateTitle President of Poland
legislature Sejm
locatedIn Central Europe
majorCity Kraków
Lwów
Poznań
Wilno
Łódź
nativeName Poland
surface form: Rzeczpospolita Polska
notableLeader Ignacy Mościcki
Józef Piłsudski
officialLanguage Polish
population approximately 32,000,000 (1931)
populationCensusYear 1931
precededBy Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austro-Hungarian Empire

German Empire
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland)
Russian Empire
previousCurrency Polish marka
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy

Judaism
Roman Catholicism
startTime 1918-11-11
upperHouse Senate of Poland

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Warsaw Army country Second Polish Republic
Armia „Łódź” country Second Polish Republic
Eastern Borderlands country Second Polish Republic
Eastern Borderlands partOf Second Polish Republic
Вішнева locatedInHistoricalRegion Second Polish Republic
Вішнева locatedInCountry Second Polish Republic
Вішнева historicalCountry Second Polish Republic
Hilary Minc countryOfCitizenship Second Polish Republic
Ruzhany formerCountry Second Polish Republic
Vishnevo locatedInTimePeriod Second Polish Republic
Vishnevo partOf Second Polish Republic
Vishnevo locatedInTheHistoricalRegion Second Polish Republic
Vishnevo historicallyLocatedIn Second Polish Republic
Jan Kazimierz University country Second Polish Republic
Leon Wasilewski areaOfActivity Second Polish Republic
KOVO bordered Second Polish Republic
Vishneva historicalRegion Second Polish Republic
Vishneva wasPartOf Second Polish Republic
Piłsudski family associatedWith Second Polish Republic
Lithuanian name Zalavas locatedInFormerPoliticalEntity Second Polish Republic
subject surface form: Zalavas
Vilna historicalRegion Second Polish Republic
Vilna historicalRegion Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: Interwar Poland
Warsaw Voivodeship (interwar) country Second Polish Republic
Warsaw Voivodeship (interwar) partOf Second Polish Republic
Battle of Piotrków Trybunalski (1939) location Second Polish Republic
PSL "Wyzwolenie" country Second Polish Republic
Polish presidential election, 1926 country Second Polish Republic
Polish presidential election, 1926 era Second Polish Republic
assassination of Gabriel Narutowicz country Second Polish Republic
Battle of Jordanów belligerent Second Polish Republic
Battle of Ciechanów (1939) location Second Polish Republic
Piłsudskiite camp countryInvolved Second Polish Republic
Occupied Enemy Territory East followedBy Second Polish Republic
Battle of Węgierska Górka belligerent Second Polish Republic
Battle of Różan (1939) belligerent Second Polish Republic
Kwidzyn historicalAffiliation Second Polish Republic
Kozelsk camp victimCountry Second Polish Republic
Battle of Chojnice belligerent Second Polish Republic
Battle of Tomaszów Mazowiecki (1939) opponent Second Polish Republic
Stanisławów Voivodeship country Second Polish Republic
Stanisławów Voivodeship partOf Second Polish Republic
Battle of Krasnobród (1939) location Second Polish Republic
Bytów historicalAffiliation Second Polish Republic
Mieczysław Niedziałkowski country Second Polish Republic
Communist Party of Poland operatedIn Second Polish Republic
this entity surface form: interwar Poland
Communist Party of Poland activeDuring Second Polish Republic